Alice Kuipers Quotes
I wish I had more time for… exercise. As a working mum, I find that I make time for my son and for writing but exercise is sliding.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
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A great pop song should be felt when you hear it.
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On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.
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At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.
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The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.
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I wish I had more time for… exercise. As a working mum, I find that I make time for my son and for writing but exercise is sliding.
